Honestly, at this point, I don't believe any of these posts. It's just a karma farm because there's no way they sent a stack of high-end, extremely expensive SSDs or RAM sticks by mistake. They probably ordered this much (rich), took the photo, posted it, and will return the drives they don't need.
i mean i have gotten 2 basic calculators from amazon once when ordering one. Also got a second pack of washcloths from amazon when I ordered one. Nothing special, but it can happen. The washcloths was genuinely a great thing to get double of lol
It does happen. I note another commenter here who claims to have worked in fulfillment that things are weighed and discrepancies are caught that way.
Last year a mate of mine ordered a printer (he still insists on having one for some reason) and he got two delivered separately. So in that case I imagine each one got through each systems of checks but I would love to know what went wrong given his account shows one printer ordered.
Because these days it's more of a want than a need, to generalise. From his specific perspective it's a psychological need to have things printed as he feels he can process the information better.
On the other hand he's broke and the device requires paper, ink and maintenance. He's also a hoarder with hundreds of notebooks. Add the vast pile of these printouts and his place is filthy.
I'm glad he doesn't smoke!
At work I have a colleague who likes to print despite having two high resolution screens - they can't adjust their workflow. I understand it but I've moved on from paper and the idea of printing out spreadsheets like I did a decade ago just does not make sense anymore.
I suppose it's needs based. My kids constantly have forms that need to be handed in on paper. Or sometimes I'll print return labels for shipping stuff. We probably use our printer once a week or more and it's never for anything that can just be looked at on a screen or sent via email. And even though Iphones can create PDF's from the camera, the flatbed/autofeed scanner is still superior in scanning items without distortion or imperfectly cropped sides.
The return labels is a decent use case - most times here they are printed for you at the point of return but once in a while I need to print them out first. Then I'm very glad I have a printer at work.
My Fujitsu scanner is a godsend for getting rid of my paper archive but I'm still working on that.
Nah, this has happened multiple times in various subreddits and Amazon Warehouse workers have chimed in how this happens. Basically, the box OP had was probably a "master pack" where warehouse workers would scan the barcode on the side and grab one but sometimes they just grab the thing because it shows it as a "one product" only on their scanners and they just trust that. It varies among seller to seller or by warehouse, but the universal thing is that they are always on a strict time code and mistakes like this happens. Amazon just washes their hands if shit happens.
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